Abstracts tagged "biologic response modifiers and quality of life"

Abstract Number: 365 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Improvement of Health-Related Quality of Life in RA Patients Treated with Biologics – One-Year Follow-up Data of the German Biologics Register Rabbit
Kerstin Gerhold¹, Adrian Richter², Matthias Schneider³, Hans Joachim Bergerhausen⁴, Winfried Demary⁵, Anke Liebhaber⁶, Joachim Listing⁷, Angela Zink⁸ and Anja Strangfeld⁹, ¹Programme Area of Epidemiology, German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leipniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ³Rheumatology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴Klinik für Rheumatologie, Wedau Kliniken - Klinikum Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany, ⁵Private Practice, Hildesheim, Germany, ⁶Private Practice, Halle, Germany, ⁷German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leipniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Epidemiology Unit, German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leipniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Programme Area Epidemiology, German Rheumatism Research Center, a Leipniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly recognized as a crucial indicator of disease burden in chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).…